How To Install proteinortho on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install proteinortho
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is proteinortho
proteinortho is:
Proteinortho is a stand-alone tool that is geared towards large datasets and makes use of distributed computing techniques when run on multi-core hardware. It implements an extended version of the reciprocal best alignment heuristic. Proteinortho was applied to compute orthologous proteins in the complete set of all 717 eubacterial genomes available at NCBI at the beginning of 2009. Authors succeeded identifying thirty proteins present in 99% of all bacterial proteomes.
There are three methods to install proteinortho
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install proteinortho Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install proteinortho
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install proteinortho
Install proteinortho Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install proteinortho
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install proteinortho
Install proteinortho Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install proteinortho
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install proteinortho
How To Uninstall proteinortho on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the proteinortho
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove proteinortho
Uninstall proteinortho And Its Dependencies
To uninstall proteinortho
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove proteinortho
Remove proteinortho Configurations and Data
To remove proteinortho
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge proteinortho
Remove proteinortho configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove proteinortho
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge proteinortho
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install proteinortho
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.